The Camden Public Library is celebrating reading during Children’s Book Week, May 3-9. Youth Services Manager Amy Hand will host weekday story times and crafts online, as well as special outdoor activities on the library’s grounds. Every weekday morning “Miss Amy” will portray a different children’s book character for readings posted to the library’s Facebook […]
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Center offers virtual career, higher education sessions
ORONO — The Maine Educational Opportunity Center will host free individualized sessions for adults 19 and older looking for a new career or returning to higher education. The virtual sessions will be held at the following dates and times: • Monday, May 17 at 9 and 10 a.m.; • Tuesday, May 18 at 9 and […]
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Booklets cover 19th century advances in food production
WISCASSET — The Lincoln County Historical Association works with local schools, including home schools, to advance the historical heritage of Lincoln County and Maine. As part of that effort, the organization’s education director has developed two booklets that provide educators and their students with an overview of historical data in an interdisciplinary manner: “Settlement during […]
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Prostate cancer nonprofit offers free support, call-in training
The statewide nonprofit the Maine Coalition to Fight Prostate Cancer (mcfpc.org) offers men and women the opportunity to reach out to others through its “One2One Confidential” outreach call-in program. Thirteen men and women have been trained and stand ready to respond via phone, according to a news release by Sandy Jaeger, a member of the […]
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CMCC offers Precision Machining Training Academy
AUBURN — The Center for Workforce & Professional Development at Central Maine Community College plans to offer a free Precision Machining Training Academy from May 24 to Aug. 31. The deadline to register is Friday, May 7, to register, visit bit.ly/3cVrVh7. Valued at nearly $10,000 in free training, plus wages earned through the worksite, the […]
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Drive-up spaghetti meal fundraiser planned for May 1
PALERMO — The Waldo County Republicans Committee will sponsor a drive-up spaghetti meal fundraiser from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, May 1, at the Malcolm Glidden American Legion Post 163, Turner Ridge Road. The cost $10 per dinner or $16 per two dinners, and $8 for each additional dinner. The choice of a homemade meat […]
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Art show shines spotlight on Maine Media students
During May, the Camden Public Library will host an online show of photographic artwork by Sue Michlovitz and Dianne Kittle called “Visual Artists: Our Journeys to a Personal Project.” Michlovitz and Kittle are both pursuing Master of Fine Arts degrees at Maine Media College in Rockport and are to graduate in May. The images featured […]
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Online art auction to benefit Wiscasset gallery
WISCASSET — The Maine Art Gallery has gathered a number of noteworthy, yet affordable, works of art for an online auction that will be open for bidding from Saturday, May 1 to Tuesday, June 15. The pieces, donated by artists and collectors, offer the buyer an opportunity to obtain fine art while helping to support […]
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Lab releases 2020 Maine tick program data
ORONO — University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Lab 2020 Surveillance Program data is now compiled and available on the Maine Tick Data webpage, extension.umaine.edu/ticks/maine-tick-data. In 2019, the lab began testing tick samples for Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, and babesiosis — the three most common tick-borne diseases. In 2020, an additional testing panel was added to […]
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Fairfield student completes research project
WORCESTER, Mass. — Braden Ballard of Fairfield, a member of the class of 2022 majoring in civil engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, was a member of a student team that recently completed an intense research project. The project was entitled “Pollution Mapping & Management Methods for Rivers,” done with Ecuador Project Center. At WPI, all […]